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Table 4 Prevalence of child overweight and obesity based on electronic health record and parent-reported data

From: Accuracy of parent-reported information for estimating prevalence of overweight and obesity in a race-ethnically diverse pediatric clinic population aged 3 to 12

  

By child age

By child race/ethnicity

 

All

Ages 3–5 y

Ages 6–12 y

NonHispanic White

Black

Latino

Asian

 

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

Overweight/obese (BMI- for-age percentile ≥ 85)

 EHR data for full sample

35.2 (32.3–38.1)

27.0 (22.8–31.1)

41.0a (37.1–44.9)

29.7 (24.3–35.1)

31.9 (23.3–40.5)

42.8b (38.0–47.6)

32.0 (25.4–38.5)

 Parent-reported data

50.2c (46.0–54.3)

46.7c (40.1–53.2)

52.5a (47.2–57.9)

43.9c (36.8–51.1)

57.4c (45.3–69.4)

57.0cb (49.8–64.2)

48.2 (37.4–59.1)

Obese (BMI-for-age percentile ≥ 95)

 EHR data for full sample

19.4 (17.0–21.8)

13.4 (10.1–16.6)

23.6a (20.2–26.9)

14.4 (10.3–18.7)

18.1 (11.0–25.2)

23.7b (19.6–27.9)

19.3 (13.8–24.8)

 Parent-reported data

32.1c (28.2–36.0)

29.8c (23.7–35.8)

33.6c (28.5–38.7)

21.6c (15.7–27.5)

39.1bc (27.3–50.9)

41.4bbc(34.2–48.5)

35.3bc (25.1–45.5)

  1. EHR = Electronic health record; CI = Confidence interval around percentage.
  2. Denominators for full sample/children with parent-reported weight classification: All: N = 1053/558; Ages 3 to 5: N = 434/225; Ages 6 to 12: N = 619/333.
  3. NonHispanic Whites: N = 276/180; Blacks: N = 116/69; Latinos N = 409/186; Asians N = 197/85.
  4. aSignificant difference between age groups by two-tailed z-test (P < .05).
  5. bSignificantly different from nonHispanic Whites by two-tailed z-test (P < .05).
  6. cSignificant difference between prevalence estimated from parent-reported data and EHR data for all children in the demographic group by two-tailed z-test (P < .05).